I WON! There is a ladies craft retreat this weekend, and I won free admission! I’m very excited to crochet for an obscene amount of time and get a huge jump on all the orders I have so far this season. I had known the retreat was coming up and while I wanted to go, I talked myself out of it. Brady and I are up to lead worship this Sunday, and while we usually recruit my parents to lead with us, neither of them will be available to help. So I couldn’t back out on Brady and leave it completely up to him! Could I? I could, haha! He is completely on board and convinced me to take the prize and go. So I will!
You would think I would save all my crochet gumption for the weekend, but you would be wrong. So far today, I have completed a slouchy toque and a new pattern of scarf. I know, I know, I need to get out more. But its winter. So I think I’d rather stay in. But the lighting sucks down here so I can’t take a picture that really shows the awesomeness of these completed projects. The hat slouches better than all the other slouchers I’ve made. It takes no adjusting. It just slouches. And the scarf is actually super pretty and chunky and not just obvious horizontal rows. Not that there is anything wrong with a basic scarf, I have made my share of those! But I”m really loving all the new techniques I’m learning! I really do prefer to crochet from my head but learning patterns has opened me up to a whole new world! Similarly, when I play piano, I prefer to just chord so I can play more easily by ear, but if I had never learned to read music, I couldn’t fill in the blanks and make the music more beautiful. Does that make sense?
I’ve spent a large chunk of the day crocheting and now have run out of things to make! I don’t want to start on any project I can’t finish pretty much by the end of the day, since then I’ll have to haul something half done to the retreat, and things get so tangled that way.
Maybe next year I will have crocheted enough projects that I could actually participate in one of those small town trade shows. I can dream, can’t I?